The Soviet economy is proof that, contrary to what many sceptics had earlier believed, a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.~SamuelsonSource: In his 13th edition of his text book on Economics in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.~Abigail Adams

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency - first by inflation, then by deflation - the banks … will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered….
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people - to whom it properly belongs.~Thomas Jefferson in the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill (1809)